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Name
Description
Eugene Belgrand
engineer
Henri Victor Regnault
chemist and physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
physicist
Gaspard de Prony
engineer
Louis Vicat
engineer
Jean-Jacques Ebelmen
chemist
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
physicist
Louis Poinsot
mathematician
Léon Foucault
physicist
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
astronomer
Jean-Baptiste Morin
mathematician and physicist
René-Just Haüy
mineralogist
Émile Combes
engineer and metallurgist
Luis Jacques Thénard
chemist
Dominique François Jean Arago
astronomer and physicist
Simeon Poisson
mathematician and physicist
Gaspard Monge
geometer
Jules Petiet
engineer
Louis Daguerre
artist and chemist
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
chemist
Urbain Le Verrier
astronomer
Albert Auguste Perdonnet
engineer
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
astronomer
Etienne-Louis Malus
physicist
Abraham Louis Breguet
mechanic and inventor
Antoine-Rémi Polonceau
engineer
Jean Baptiste André Dumas
chemist
Émile Clapeyron
engineer
Jean-Charles de Borda
mathematician
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
mathematician
Marie François Xavier Bichat
anatomist and physiologist
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
mechanic
Théophile-Jules Pelouze
chemist
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
engineer
Gabriel Lamé
geometer
Dibbets is a conceptual artist, born in 1941 in Weert in the Netherlands and was
well known for his work with photography. His installation sculpture is a homage to
Arago and is laid out along the whole of the Paris Meridian inside the Périphérique,
(the City's inner ring road), from the Cité Universitaire in the south of the city to
Montmartre in the north. It runs across a diameter of the Périphérique, a distance of
8 km, cutting through the following arrondissements: the 14th (Observatoire), the 6th
(Luxembourg) on the Left Bank of the River Seine, the 1st (Louvre), 2nd (Bourse),
9th (Opéra), and 18th (Montmartre) on the Right Bank. It seems likely that the monu-
ment is the largest dedicated to an individual in France or perhaps the world.
The sculpture consists of 135 bronze medallions 12 cm in diameter which carry
Arago's name and the correct orientation
N
and
S
. It is interesting that Dibbets
chose to mark North and South and emphasized the function of the meridian in
